| ▲ | lynx97 2 days ago |
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| ▲ | tomhow 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This risks breaking the guidelines about being snarky, being curmudgeonly, fulminating, sneering and generic tangents. As I asked in just the past couple of days, please make an effort to observe the guidelines. You seem to be relatively new here, so it's understandable to take some time to understand what's expected, but please make the effort if you want to keep participating here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html |
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| ▲ | rekenaut 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Trust me, the 80% meeting workday became prevalent loooooong before the 2020s. |
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| ▲ | georgemcbay a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Can double confirm. I'm 51, have been working in software my whole professional career, this isn't something that started with COVID. The massive increase in tech hiring might have made more of these people exist in absolute terms, but they have always existed. | |
| ▲ | Hamuko a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Isn't this just called "being a Product Owner"? I've never seen those people do anything but sit in meetings. | | |
| ▲ | 0xEF a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't know about anyone else, but contrary to my general disdain for meetings* I have found product owners/process managers to be useful in the regard of having one central person to funnel things through on a particular project. The bottleneck also creates a nice buffer of accountability in both directions and they typically offer either new or refined SOPs after solving the same problems over and over again. Plus, they can sit in on the meeting while I go do something useful. I may just have been lucky with the few I've had to work with though, so your mileage may vary. *or as the song says, a little less conversation, a little more action please | |
| ▲ | jumilbiju a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | lynx97 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | I trust you thats the case for your environment. Where I work, useless meetings started to explode March 2020, and never went away. | | |
| ▲ | jannyfer a day ago | parent [-] | | Were you born in 1997? If so, it’s possible you just weren’t senior enough to see the 80% meeting workday prior to COVID. | | |
| ▲ | data_marsupial a day ago | parent | next [-] | | There was a big step change in my experience, enabled by the adoption of Teams for remote work and the resulting ease of scheduling meetings. Previously meetings had always required the organiser to book a room. | |
| ▲ | lynx97 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Weird guess. No, you're off by 18 years. However, I am not working in a software shop. | | |
| ▲ | adwn a day ago | parent [-] | | > Weird guess. The guess probably stems from the number in your user name: 97. | | |
| ▲ | lynx97 a day ago | parent [-] | | Ahh, right! That is actually a reference to Terminator... 29, August 1997... | | |
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| ▲ | dickersnoodle a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This didn't start with COVID. Remember that scene in "Office Space" where the big boss had that banner up that said "Is this good for the company?" and everyone was nodding like they'd just been given the secret to life? Yeah, I've seen those kind of things in real life. |
